Friday Feb 08, 2008

The
JSF Matrix keeps a table of JSF component libraries
(although the comments suggest it needs updating)
and
Ryan just published a
short note
pointing to it.
Pretty much all the component libraries work with GlassFish
(we cheat a bit, most of the AppServers are using
Mojarra,
our JSF implementation).

Wednesday Jan 02, 2008

The latest JSF Components from
Project Woodstock
are now available via the GlassFish Update Center client at
INSTALL/updatecenter/bin/updatetool.
What you download is equivalent to the
Online Preview;
check out
Dick's Writeup.

Tuesday Aug 21, 2007

CNet reports that Intuit is working on Quicken Online and that its building it using
JSF.
The
article reports that
Quicken Online will go into limited beta mid-September;
it will be interesting to check it out.

Saturday Jul 21, 2007

Want to spice up your webapp with some AJAX widgets? Maybe a sortable table? An expandable tree? Or a controllable progress bar?

Then check out Project Woodstock. It provides JSF components which implement all of these widgets and more. Plus, it just got faster.

Previously, Woodstock components were sending a lot of large JavaScript files to clients. The team realized this was a problem--pushing up load times and memory consumption. Their solution? Use smaller files, and less of them. So they now compress the JavaScript, avoid using separate template files, and make just one call for each widget's JavaScript (where previously there were too). See Venky's writeup for details.

Thursday Feb 15, 2007

Woodstock is an
Open Source library of JSF components that provide modern
presentations, including the use of AJAX.
Woodstock is used in the new admin UI
in GlassFish v2 M4
and it includes a pretty good set of components, as versions of it have been used inside Sun for a while.